Sri Lanka A vs South Africa A
Is there anyone here who watched first ODI match among Sri Lanka squad against South Africa squad that was played today?
From the start of the Sri Lanka innings, they did wonderful innings. The Sri Lanka lost one wicket at the start but after that their two players Kamil Mishara and Nuwanidu Fernando reached almost through the 100 but couldn’t make it.
Nuwanidu Fernando out on the 97 score. Just missed his century by the three runs. On the other hand, his partner Kamil Mishara was far from the century, he was out on 71. When the both lost the wicket then SriLanka had not found any great player who can play similiar long innings but they still made a decent target of 298 that was not chased by the South African team.
Another thing that i noticed that in "A" teams there is no one who named as the player of the match but if there would be then it must be dedicated to Nuwanidu Fernando.
The South Africa A team middle order is not good. Their openers gave them good start, we can’t blame to them. David Bedingham has not played well but overall top order is good.
Tony de Zorzi made more than fifty and Matthew Breetzke., Yes, I know Matthew Breetzke was wasting balls but at the same time, he at least stand with Tony de Zorzi and allowed him to play more balls because he was hitting hard and Matthew Breetzke was not wanted to break that momentum. However, in the bowling the South African is also weak Andile Phehlukwayo played with good economy and picked wickets while the other bowlers were affording many runs.